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Yearly advertisers Will be charged the same rates as trnerlient rolvertisers for all matters not reLatfug Striet lp to their kitrine4B, PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Esecuterl in a superior manner, at the very Mooed prices, Our aneorimeut of Jos TYPS is large sad fashionable, and our Work mastics for itself. steNss OP ALL KM% Including PARCHMENT and PAYER DEEM, MORTGAGE/11, BONDS, ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, Lunges, and a variety of JiLieTICEle &Aims, kept constantly for sale, or printed to eider. DANIEL E. SCHROEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. OFFICE WITH J. HAGENMAN, PENN ST., above Sixth, Beading, Pa. Vane 8-3 m C, A Leopold, A" )RNEY AT LAW .— OFFICE IN COURT stie,4 firer door below Sixth, Reading, Pa. etey ZS, 1863-11 RICHMOND L. JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW . d'AFFICE WWII J. GLANCY JONES, ESQ., kir Rest Penn Square, south elde, Beading. April IS, ISM-Smo 411388 E 4. HAMMY? ATTORNEY AT LAW, NAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO NORTH Sixth Street, opposite the Keystone House, Reading. April 11. 13243-l1 PAT TON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE WITH A. B. WANNER. NORTH Ur Sixth Street. (above the Court Hone,) Reading, Pa. February 21.1/362-ly • REMOVAL. LIVINGOOD, ATTORNEY AT View, him removed his office to the north side of Coart street first door below Sixth. [des 22-it Charles Pavia, • TTORNEY AT LAW—HAD REMOVED HIS Office to the Ofthie lately occupied by the Hon. David Gordon, deceased, in Sixth street, opposite the Court House. [atoll 14 Daniel Drinentiont, ATTORNEY AT LAW—OITIOR IN NORTH Sixth street, corner of Court alley. Lang 13-ty David Neff, 7ilorxsAi.p. AND RETAIL DEALER IN "Foreign and Domestic DRY GOODS, No. 25 Sad Taut street, Reading, re. plata 10,1881_ LIVINCOOD'S United States Bounty, Back Pay and Pension Office, COURT BTREKT, PEAS RIITH TrAVING BEEN ENGAGED IN COLLECT & ing elahne against the Government, I feel confident that all who have heretofore employed me will cheerfully endorse my promptness and fidelity. My shareee are inoderatelind no alum made until ebteined, WILLIAM H. LITINOOOD, oet IS-If] Attorney at Law, Court St., Reading, Pa. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS CAN NOW OBTAIN THEIR $lOO BOUNTY how their. & Goverment, by application to ABNXIS X. STAUFFIR, March 7-ti] Collection 01Bee, Court Street, Beading ASA M. H.A.RT, (Late Hart & Mayer') DEALER IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN IM . GOODS, CASPETINGS, Igu., Wholesale sari Ro an, at Phibidelphia prices. Mau of the Golden Bee Hive, Re 14 Mud Pena Square. [aprill7-t1 P. Bu Kong & Sons, N[ANUFACTURERS OF BURNING FLUID, Absolute, Deodorized and Druggiste' Alcohol; also, • e Oil, whirls they will sell at the lowest Wholesale prices, at Reading, Pa. *lr- Ordt....i.rAluny sollsned. G. M. MILLER, M. D., Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, A GRADUATE OF THE ECLECTIC MEDI /Leal College Philtdelphin. offers Ms professional per vices to the citizens of Hamburg mid vicinity_ Painful Eargisal operations, snob se Betting Broken and Dislocated Limbs, Amputations, Cuffing Canters, Tumors, dc., will be performed under the influence of Ether, at the Consent of the patient. . . Office at his residence in Main etreekliankbarg, Ps. DR: T. YARDLEY BROWN, SURGEON DENTIST. GRADUATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Dental College. Teeth extracted by Fran 't II e ", • cis' Electra Magnetic process, with Clarke's improvement. With &le method teeth are xtracted with mash lem pain than the usual way. No extra. charge. Office in Fifth street, opposite the Preebyte nen Church. [april 2-ly CHARLES LAHCASTRR, MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN, Fourth Street, above Penn, Reeding. January 24. 11M13-nf PENSIONS, BOUNTIES & BACK PAY. APPLICATIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED to. Terms moderate and no charge instil obtained. 0_ MAIL Attorney at Law, Jan 31-dine] Office in Omit e treat, Reading. SOLDIERS' ZOIISPZ7Z-BIONEE, BAON-PAY AND PENSION CLAIM PROMPTLY ATTEND - RD TO BY A. K. STAUFFER, Attorney at Law, Office In Court S 5 Jan 31-tf] RKADINO, PA_ LIQUOR STORE. T HAVE OPENED A LIQUOR AND WIRE ISTORR in the room formerly occupied by JOHN GREEN, IN THE " SCHNUCKER HOUSE" My MUM, are sit Invited to cell sod examine for them staves. All LIQUORS end WINO eold be me, shall a se represented, April 4, 1863-111 JERNBIAB D. BITTING. F. P. HELLER, WATCIIMAKER, JEWELER , AND DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, § POONS, SPECTACLES, GOLD PENS, Ace., Signor the " 818 WATCII, I, leo.EEm Ea Penn Vert, above Sixth, north side, Reading, Pa. Air Every article warranted to be what it la sold for Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, &c., repaired. With particular attention, and guaranteed. Deb I—tt MONEY WANTED ! ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY. APPLY TO JACOB C. SCHOENBB, Commercial Broker. :March k 8 °Mee—Court street. rtgIIKEY AND FRENCH PRUNES.—FOR Sala at YBOCOCEI, SIB) 40 South Fifth pgroes. I BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL, - SirESTABLISHED AC A REFUGE FROM QUACKERY. The Only Place Where a Cure Can be D. JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED THE moat Certain. Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in the World for all Private Diseases, Weakness of the Sack or Limbs, &Minces, Affeetlons of the Kldneye gad Blatt. der, Involuntary Dineharge,. Impotency, General Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits, Coes, sWn, of Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremb ling. Dimness of Sight or Hiddluese, Disease of the Head, Throat, None or Skin, Affections of the Liver, Lungs, Stomach or Bowels—those Terrible Disorders arising from the Solitary Habits, of Youth—there emvaer nod soltialy practices teem fatal to their victims than the song of Sprout, to the Mariners of _Clymer, blighting their moat brilliant hopes oranticipatious rendering marriage. &c., impossible. iroirsira MEN kiipecially. who bavo become the victim.; of Solitary Vice. that dreadful and dvstroative habit which annually sweeps to au untimely grave timusitudv of Young Mun or the moat exalted talents and brilliant Intellect, who might other wine bare entranced listening Senatee, with the thunders of eloquence or waked to sostaily the avian lyre, may call With fall confidence. Married Persons, or Yonag Men contemplating mar riage, being aware of physical weakness, organic deformities speedily cured. He who places himself under the care of Dr. .1. may religiously confide in his honor as a gentleman, and con fidently rely upon his skill as a physician. ORGANIC WEAKNESS Immediately Cured and Fall Vigor Ite.tored. Thie histruseing Anksalon—wbiel, modern Life and Mar riage impossible—is the penalty paid by the victims of im proper indulgences. Young persoun are too apt to commit successes from nut being aware of the dreadful cams queues. that may ensue. Now, who that understand the subject will petend to deny that she power of prooreo tkoi to loot loaner by those falling into improper habite than by the prudent? Besides being deprived of the pleas ure of healthy °Owing, the most serious and destructive symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system be comes Deranged, the Phyelcal and Mental Function. Weakened, Loss of Procreative Pooor, Nervono Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indlgeetioa, Con stitutional Debility. a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con sumption, Decay and Death. Office, No. 7 South Frederick Street. Lou hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number. Letters weld be paid and contain a afenep. The Doctor's Diploma haulm in ale onion. A CINLIL WARRANTED IN TWO DAV& No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs. DR. JOHNSTON. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Grad uate from one of the moot eminent ecilegeo la lie United Slates, and ihO greater part of wuose life Las been spent in the hoepitale of London, Parte, Philadelphia and else where, has effected sums of the most astonishing cures that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the head and ears lotion asleep, great nervoneneen being alarmed at sudden sounds, baehfulnese, with frequent blushing, attended sometime with derangement of mind, were cured immediately. fr 0-7-1,1` . 401!PF-4 1N , A , 1 , 4 (.J, Dr. J. addressee all those who have injured themselves by improper indulgence sod solitary habits, which rein both body and /Mod, Itabltiug theta for either iminent", study. Society Or Marriage. Taws are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro duced by :early habits of youth, viz: Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimness of Sight, Lose of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dye parts. Nervous Irritability, Deraugereestof the Digestive Functions, tioneralVebtllty,symptomsorCoaeureptioa,&c. Mmerauff.—The fearful affects on the Mind are much to be dreaded—Loss of Memory. Confusion of Ideas, Uepres eions of Spirits, Evil Forbodings, aversion to Society, Self- Distract, Love of Solitude, Timidity , &c., axe some of the evils produced. Tuousamie of persons of all ages can now judge what is the cause of their destining health, losing their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, baring singular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms of consumption. TO NO MEN Who have injured themeelvee by a certain practice indul ge Tin vain alone, a habit frequently learned from evil companions, or at school, the Weans of which are nightly felt, even when asleep, and if not cared renders marriage impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should ap ply immediately. What a pity that a young man, the hope of hie country. the darling of bin parents, should be imaiclicit from ail prospects and enjoymente of life, by the consequence of deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a cer tain Secret habit. Such persons maim before contemplat ing IMEARTIZELGZI, reflect that a sound mind and body are the mod necessary regubdtee to promote connabiat happiness. Indeed, with out these the journey through life becomes a weary pil grimage; the prospect homely darkens to the view; the mind becomes shadowed with despair and filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness of another be comes blighted with our own. DISEIALSE OF xrezmurzairroxi. Whoa the misguided and ,impradent votary of pleasure Inds that be hen imbibed the mode of Shin painful disease, It too,often happens that an 311-timed canes of shame, or dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those who, from education and respectability, can alone befriend him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid divase make their appearance, ouch so ulcerated ours throat, diaelteed nun, nocturnal polo ji the bead and limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes un the shin-bones and arms, blotches on tho head, face and extremities, pro gressing with frightful rapidity, till at lest the palate of the mouth or the bones of the nose fall in, and the victim of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commis eration, till death puts a period to his dreadful sufferings, by sending him to that llndiscovared Country from whence no traveller returns." It ie a rackstchoty fact that 'hatstands NM victims to this terrible disease, owing to the unskillfulness of ignor- ant pretenders, who, by the use of that :Dcznify Poison, Mercury, ruin the constitution and make the residue 0 life miserable. STRANGDRS Treat not your lives, or health, to the care of many Un learned and worthless Pretenders,_ destitute of knowledge, name or character, who copy Dr. Johnston's advertise. mente, or Idyls themselves, in the newspapens, regularly Mdacated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep yen trilling month after month taking their filthy and paean one compounde, or as long as the smallest fee cart be ob tained, and in despair, leave you with rained health to sigh over your own galling dtaappointraeut. Or. Johnston in the only Phyalrian advertising, Me credential/ or diplomae alwaya hang in his office. His remedies or treatment are unknown to all °there, prepared from a life spent in the great hospitals of Europe, the first in the country and a more extensive Private Practice than any other Physician in the world. 'moth 12 INDORSILO2IINT 01' THE Ilan& The many theenfanda cured at tide institution year after year, and the numerous Important Surgical Operations performed by Dr. Johnston. witnessed by the reporters of the •• Sun," "Clipper," and many other papers, notices of which have appeared again and again before the public, besides his standing as a gentleman of character and re sponsibility, is a sufficient guarantee to the afflicted. • Skin Diseases Speedily Cured. Sir No lettere received silliest' poet-geld and containing a stamp to be •wed on the reply. reasons writing should state age, and send portion of advertisement describing symptoms. JOHN M. JOHNSTON,. M. n o Of the Baltimore LOOK Hospital, Baillraore,Tdarylaed May 23—ly Commercial Broker. UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN _IL out a License as a COMMERCIAL BROKER, is pre pared to negotiate for the parchaee and sale of REAL BR TA PE, COIF, STOCKS, BONDS. MORTGAGE'S, and other Securities, Goods in unbroken Packages, Collec tion of Rents, and any other business of a Commission Broker or Agent. B' Parties having business to do in hie line are regatta ed to give him a call. JACOB C. SClitSlißli, OFFICE to Court Street, next door above Alderman Schaper. Lgeb 28 FRENCH'S HOTEL. ON TEE PIIROPEA.W PLAN, CITY OF NEW YORK. Single Rooms Fifty Cents per Day. City Sall Square, corner Frankfort St., (OPPONITZ CITY HALL) APALS AS THEY MAY BE ORDERED IN he spacious refectory. There is a Barher'e Shop and Bata Bootee attached to the Hotel. Alir Beware of RUNNERS and HALTICMEN who any wo We Jam 17-Iy] ' B. FRENCH, Proprietor. NATIONAL HOTEL, (LATE WHITE SWAN.) Race Street, above Third, Philadelphia. ESTABLISHMENT OFFERS ()HEAT inducements, not only an accotuit of reduced rates of board, but hom its neutral !oration to the avenue. of trade, as well as the convenience. afforded by the several Passenger Railways running past and contiguous to It, by which gneiss can pass to and from the Hotel, should they be preferred to the regular Omnibus connected with the Hones. I sin determined to devote my whole attention to the comfort and convenience of my guest.. Air Torsos, $1 25 par day. D C. EIEGEIST, Proprietor, Formerly from Eagle Hotel, Lebanon, Pa. T. v. varosue.eierk. (march 15-If FRESH GROCERIES, -AT - REDUCED PRICES. AT THE Corner of Wifth and spruce streets. Kara i X. KUM k SON. Obtained. BoMitzi. A TENNESSEE LOYALIST ON • THE CONDUCT OF. THE WAD. Remarkable Letter •of Ron. Emerson Etheridge. The following remarkable letter from a promir nent Southern Union man, who, up to the present time, has been considered loyal "th the Lincoln Administration, has taken the country completely by surprise. Under the assumed language of unqualified praise, it conveys the severest rebuke and condemnation of the whole policy of the party in power. It is, without exception, the keenest and most cutting piece of irony that has ever been penned by an American politician, and exposes the weaknesses, the follies and the failures of the Administration, in the boldest and most convincing way. Mr. Ethridge, it is well known, belonged to the old , line Whigs, was formerly a representative in Congress from Tennessee, and was elected Clerk of the Rouse of Representatives by the last Congress—which office, of course, be still holds. Pot ar officer of one of the branches of the Government, be exhibits an independence remarkably' in contrast with the servility of the present crew of Federal office-holders. His letter affords abundant food for the careful con .sideration of every reflecting citizen. Waannuaros, D. C., May 18, 1863 GENTLEMEN :—I have just, receibed your letter of the 7th inet., inviting me, in behalf of the Washington Union Club of Memphis, to join you in a public celebration of the anniversary of the surrender of that city to the Federal arms. You also speak kindly of my past efforts to induce the people of West Tennessee to consent cheer fully to the restoration of the national authority throughout the South. If I believed that, by meeting you on the oc• oration referred to, I could be of service to a sin gle honest, law-abiding citizen, or truly repent. ant rebel, or that I could contribute, to the least extent, in ending the war and restoring the blessings of peace under the Constitution, I would certainly attend. But I have no such faith in myself, and, therefore, I shall not go. In your letter, you express the opinion that, by a direct " personal appeal," I might "en courage the loyal, or reclaim the disloyal " confess my astonishment at such a statement; and can attribute thie opinion of yours to nothing but a failure, on your part, to compre- hend the masterly policy of our great and good President, and the wise statesmen who aid him in shaping and directing the civil policy of the Government. When you have studied and un derstand the grand purposes of our meet God fearing and law abiding President; when you are more familiar with the profund military strategy which, as "Commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States," he is now displaying; and when you further remember the astonishing success we have had in reclaiming our "misguided countrymen," and in conquering our "wayward sisters," I shall be amazed if you continue to believe it necessary to "encourage the loyal," or "reclaim the disloyal." Why encourage the loyal ? Is it possible they need en couragement in Memphis, where, fur nearly a year, you have been inside of the Federal lines 7—where every night tattoo is substituted for " flush I my baby, don't you Cry," and at reveille, " Hail Columbia " arouses the people to a - consciousness of the great security which is of forded to the property of the loyal people in Memphis and "all the country round that (po litical) Jordan?" flow can you or I " encourage the loyal," when our matchless President, the late Congress, his sage counsellors, and his peerless military subordinates, have already done and promised all which wisdom oar euggest, which our sacred Constitution authorizes, and which the Christian religion tolerates or approves! There remains nothing for us to do, unless it be to obey our in comparable President in all his wise measures to conquer a glorious peace. True, we have among us croakers and copperheads—silly, brain less men—who are so unwise and unpatriotic as to question the wisdom of our indefatigable President. If you have any such in Memphis, you should at once denounce them as in sympa thy with the rebels ; you should send them to their friends " down South," or, to the Dry Tor. tips, which is understood by many, to be a place where everybody is tortured with thirst for rifle whisky, and not a drop can be Obtained. No good Union man will complain of the con duct of the wise men who direct our public af fairs. They should be taught to remember that, acandaluva magnatuna was formerly a high crime —it is a most henious offence now—and nothing saves such topper-colored wretches but the Christian charity of one most pious President. At your proposed meeting, you should so ar range matters as to secure a list of all who fail to attend, or emit to render a suitable apology, and should adopt resolutions of the most "loyal kind." Allow me to suggest, that the committee on resolutions be selected from coo tractors and office-holders. I particularly sug gest one Cooper, Who has recently been appointed Assessor for the large, rich, and populous dis trict of West Tennessee. He• was originally from New York. True, he was never in West Tennessee until sent from this city on his official errand, but he no doubt knows by intuition the true value of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, &a., &c., of a people he neverknew, and a country in which be never lived. But he is so loyal—so Much go that 1 doubt not he is better fitted for the office than any one of the native born eons, brothers, or fathers of the thousands of soldiers which before the 22d of last September, West Tennessee had furnished the Federal army. Let the committee imitate the "Loyal Leagues" of Baltimore, and resolve that you not only approve all the present wise and patriotic Administration has done, but that you will SUMaill and uphold it in everything it may hereafter do. Let the committee make an elaborate report accompanied with resolutions , denouncing all who find fault with our most ex cellent President. Fur instance : The last Con gress (in July, 1862) passed a law to confiscate the property of certain rebels. That Congress, though a very wise body, did not possess as much aggregate wisdom as our great and good Presi dent. In proof of this we need but refer to the fact that the Congress aforesaid provided that, under this law, trial should precede conviction and forfeiture, and that guilt should be proven, not presumed. Worse still, it offered an amnesty to repentant rebels; it mercifully gave them sixty days in which to accept it, and provided further that our most noble President might I suspend, fora period ; the operations of this law as our armies advanced Southward, so as to af ford all an opportunity to accept pardon. Worse s till, this law actually applied to no one but the rebels. And it is astounding that it applied to them everywhere, North as well as South; in Springfield, Illinois, as well as in Springfield, Tennessee. But worse still ; it did not affect the rights or property of Union men, women and children, or lunatics in any section of the coun try. That Congress, strange as it may seem, did not perceive that the way to end the rebellion and restore affectionate relations between the sections, was, to place the Union men, women, children, and the insane, upon a perfect footing of equality with the vilest traitors in the land ! That Congress believed that the crime of refusing obedience to the usurpation of Jeff. Davis and Co., in Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina and elsewhere, amid the terrors of a military despotism, did not merit the same or worse pun ishment than that which they had denounced SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1863. against tilled and official traitors ! That Con gress spared the women and children ; it also shielded from harm the Union men who still adhered to the national symbol of protection ! What weakness ! But Congress had adjourned. What was to be done? Thank Maven! our sagacious President was found equal to the oc casion. You will perceive that on the first of January lad, under this so-called confiscation. law, the slaves of every rebel in the United States who had not accepted the amnesty therein provided, were de jure free. But how were we to end this rebellion if the Union men, women and ohildrekin the tar-called confederate States were left in undisturbed possession of all their legal and constitutional rights 7 If this policy were adopted, the rebels might become angry with these "monuments of Federal mercy," and, in that event, the spared monuments aforesaid might Cling more closely to the Federal flag. This division am mg the people might cause a still more unhappy state of affairs in Dixie ; our friends there might have to bear additional in dignities. As before remarked, our merciful and Considerate President was found equal to •the crisis. In a long conversation with seine inspired apostles from the saintly city of Chicago—a place where Onderdonking and other worldly amuse ments are unknown—the President candidly confessed that he was endeavoring (he did not state the means) to ascertain the will of the Lord upon this difficult question ; that so soon as he learned the Divine pleasure, he; verily, would do the will of the Master who sent him. The revelation came, doubtless, " by due course of mail," Judging that " that Which is writ. ten," it amounted to this: that in portions of Virginia and Louisiana, in Delaware, in Alary-' land, in Kentucky, in Tennessee and Missouri, it Was lawful for traitors who had accepted the amnesty provided by the confiscation law, and all other persons, to hold slaves; but that in the tide-waier regions of Virginia, and in that part of Louisiana which had not been consecrated to slavery by the military occupation of General Butler, as also in North Carolina, South Carolina, Flori da, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas, it should no longer be lawful for the . Union men, women, and children to hold our African fellow-citizens to service or labor. Add yet there are those Of the " copperhead persua sion " who profess not to see the wisdom of this great master-stroke of our most noble and ex alted President. Sirs, did it not immediately divide the South and unite the North ? Were not our camps lOrthatlit crowded with countless myriads of bold and ardent recruits ? Have not " our American brethren of African descent " crowded by thousands into our ranks, inspiring our soldiers with a wild enthusiasm, and render ing night vocal with the songs of enfranchised Blank's and Mewling and puking Sambos? And have not our arms been victorious everywhere since the dawn of the negro Millennium of 1863? I know that men like General M. Brayman who cennuande in your vicinity, (at Bolivar, Tennessee,) are guilty of absurdities of speech which afford the enemies of our sagacious Presi dent excuses for complaint and criticism. For instance, on the 14th of last March that officer, then iu command at Bolivar, wrote as follows in regard to the proclamation of freedom with which our illustrious and far-seeing President greeted the advent of the new year: " The loyal man is equally helpless with the disloyal—in fact, mere so; for the rebel takes his slaves South, or hires them in the army in which he himself serves, while the slaves of loyal men flee to our camps beyond reclamation. Under this process the rebel holds his slaves by carrying them into a State in which they are declared free, while the law abiding citizen loses his by retaining them in a State where it is lawful to hold titbit. As it is now, the loyalty and good conduct of these men avail them nothing." In speaking of the elevating effects of this system upon our enemies and the ingrains, QOL4- eral Brayman shocks our sensibilities by the use of such language as this: " Their expense to the Government is enormous. It requires soldiers to guard thorn. They sicken and die in crowded and filthy corrals. They become debased and demoralized! They debase and demoralize the army." Now, among the resolutions you will adopt at the Memphis meeting, there should, by all means, be one censuring General Brayman for the use of language so insulting to " our .fellow-citizens of African descent," and sojustly calculated to incense the elaveowners in Tennessee who have so stubbornly refused to join the rebels. Why, sirs, this license of speech must be sup pressed. What right have men who do not support the present wise and efficient Admin istration to oriticise its policy or the consequeb ces of it? Within the last few days I have heard pOrliquil in this city—in this capital which bears the sacred name of Washington, and which, for the present, is the home of our illustrious Chief Magistrat—draw, seemingly, invidious distinctions between the fate of Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, and that of John M. Botts, of Virginia. How my blood " boiled with pious indignation" when, a few days ago, I heard a certain individual of the straitest sect of copperheads discoursing thus; "Jesse P. Bright, of Indiana, was ex pelled from the Senate of the United ,States last year, charged with treasonable practices. He then owned a farm and negroes in Kentucky— still owns them. He accepted the amnesty pro vided in the so-called confiscation law, which passed Congress last July. Be is now preparing to accompany his family on a trip of pleasure to Europe, leaving his large properties in Indiana and'his slaves in Kentucky under the protection of the law. John N. Botts is just out of Libby,' or some other Confederate prison, where he was incarcerated for his devotion to the Union, and his undying hostility to the so called Southern Confederacy. Ten days ago his slaves were enticed within the lines of our ardties in Virginia. Mr. Botts demanded that they be surrendered orreturned, and received for answer, direct from Washington, that he had no right to them ; that our wise and law-abiding President had sot atom free I" I confess that when I heard this long and complaining rigmarole; I was indignant at this person's stupidity. He could not see the wisdom of this wise policy of our most noble Executive. He was almost as incorrigible as James L. Peti gru, of South Carolina, who, when he read the grand Proclamation of the most illustrious suc cessor of Washington, took the oath of allegiance to the Confederate Government, and offered his private fortune to the rebels to aid them in making war upon the armies of the sublimest man of modern times; as Nelson of Tennessee, who, with eons in rebel captivity, published an appeal to the pebple of that State to take up arms against our freedom loving President; as Houston, Henry, and others, who immediately went over to to rebel cause. Away with such men! A good Union man loves his country per Ile cares nothing for liberty or property; fame Cr fortune; CenSiderktien or contracts; office or opinion. The true test is simply this ; who is the greatest, wisest, and best of mankind? Who is the first natural military genius of the world? Who doeth all things wisely and well? Who should be elected President as long as he will accept the office ? If to all these inquires the respondent answers, with a firm and unfal tering voice, Abraham Lincoln, Esq., he may be set down as a good Union man, fit to join a Loyal League," receive a contract, accept a commission or office, and to cote. But if, like Crittenden of Kentucky, he is ever talking about the Constitution and such worn-out themes, he ought not to be trusted for a moment. A Union man must have an abundance of pith—faith in the saving grace of our exalted President—faith that he will yet prove the political Moses to lead our armies across the Rappahannock—faith that, under his leadership, could he be induced to take the field, the mighty hosts of rebeldom would flee from Marye's Hill and drown them selves, like " possessed " swine, in the adjacent stream. How is recruiting now in West Tennessee? Last summer only a few thousand enlisted in our rankel but very few, I believe, in Mempble. You were so amply protected within the lines that you quite forgot, I fear, the sorrows of those who had not yet bad au opportunity of greeting the flag which brings such certain security to loyal men, women and children ; such inevitable protection to property, including such trifling articles as negroes and cotton bales. Hurry up the volunteers. Give the lie to those who inti mate that Tennesseans win not go into the Gulf States to tight for their bretliern of African de scent. True, most of our citizens have sons, daughters, sisters, fathers, or brothers there ; but they ought never to have settled so far South. Besides, when you have secured freedom to our Africau follow oitizette south of us, you may possibly have the honor of taking part in offering the same boon to a similar class in Tennessee and Kentucky. I doubt not our no ble President will, in due time adopt suitable means to ascertain the will of the Lord in this behalf. Indeed, it seems to have been made known already to some of the lesser lights. Last week a grand convention of the loyal women of America assembled in the city of New York. Each dele gate had conceived—an idea; and, under the inspiration of the great. occasion', they have com manded our magnificent President to proclaim freedom throughout all the ends of the earth. I doubt not at the proper time, he will so pro claim ; and the twenty thousand troops which Ilia Excellency (Werner Andrew Johnson was recently authorized to recruit in Tennessee, will soon be ready for the good work of giving prac tical freedom to our enslaved fellow-countrymen, male and female, of African descent. When that time comes, Memphis will be a lovely city. Its walks and its promenades will be illuminated by the smiling fapes and brilliant eyes of the grace ful and accomplished sons and daughters of Lincoln and Liberty—of Darkness and Dahomey. True, our State constitution and laws, like those of Illinois mud other loyal States, will not per t:nit free negroes to come within our State, nor enfranchised slaves to remain there; but from "military necessity" or, as a high official ex presses it, " from the ex necessitate rei of the thing," they will, no doubt, be permitted to re. main. The plan recently adopted in South Carolina of selling them the lands of rebels might be adopted, and thereby Memphis might soon become " a variegated city." Our white and colored brethren and sisters might thus furnish an example of that " freedom and fraternity" which so many unhappy Northern spinsters sin cerely regard as the only means of compromising the present unfortunate distinction of color. You should, by all means, pass ayesolution in favor of giving such rebel farms and town lots, as are not needed for our colored brethren, to our Christian friends of the North, who desire to live among their colored friends, particularly to that numerous and respectable class who think that both races will be improved by a cross of the Anglo-Saxon upon the pare Guinea. " When this cruel war is over," how our psalm-singing brethren from the church of the Puritans would enjoy a Confederate farm upon Big Black, Red River, the Arkansas, or Ponchartrain ! When the rebels are disarmed, how meek and lowly, docile and penitent they will be while beholding our Northern brethren occupying their mansions, and illustrating the beauties of General Banks' apprentice system ! With what impunity Gen eral Butler would ride from his plantation on Moon Lake to his rancho on Dear Creel ! Then would be made manifest the absurdity of those "copperhead croakers," who foolishly insist that, while military power alone can put down a rebellion, moral power alone can eradicate its consequences and keep it down. It is true, they cite the example of Vendee, which, in area, is only about one fortieth part of France, where, we admit, peasantry believed their religion was endangered, and history re cords that they defeated six or seven of the best appointed armies which the French Republic in that warlike age eould hurl against them. It is also true that afterward, when Carnet was made Minister of War, he quieted the people by as suring them they should be undisturbed in their religious faith. These mischievous fault finders, to give further force to their insidious assaults upon our worthy President, point also to Poland, in which the fires of rebellion are ever burning ; but they forget that the Czar of all the Busies is in all respects inferior to our model President, and is wholly ignorant of the true means of quiet. ing a disaffected people. It never occurred to the aforesaid Czar that to squelch a rebellion ef fectually the cause must be removed. Had he studdied the history of rebellions in this coun try, he would have discovered that we always ascertained the cause, the evil, and the sin whteh gave pretext to the insurgents. For example.:: during during the administration of General Washinfe: ton, a portion of the people of Pennsylvania got up a rebellion about whisky. It was crushed out by "coercion," but the sagacious statesmen of that day determined to strike at the cause. The result is that the people of that commonwealth 1 , have ever since eschewed whisky and turned , their attention to contracts. Nothing is now known in that State of whisky; and though Mr. Buchanan used to recite some traditionary sto ries of " Old Rye" to the junior members of his cabinet, it is well known that the sight of a bot tle of pure Monongahela was as repulsive to his nature as ice-water to a mad dog. Subsequent ly, while General Jackson was President, the people of South Carolina revolted at taxation, because some demagogues called it high tariff, and asserted that the monster stole money from their unconscious pockets. The rebellion, how ever, was subjugated by the military power of the Government, and the cause—taxation of course—abolished. No tax gatherers have been known since in South Carolina. At a later day, during the administration of John Tyler, of the firm of " Tippecanoe and Tyler too," some un washed Democrats in Rhode Island fomented a a grand insurrection against the sovereignty of that large and populous Stale. The army and navy of the United States, by a hearty co-opera tion with the "loyalists" of that day, soon over threw the insurgents. Their provisional Gov ernor, Thomas W. Dorr, was captured, denied the rights of a " belligerent" and sent to the penitentiary. The Demoeratio party—the cause —was abolished, as all subsequent elections have shown, throughout the United States, since when no speak of rebellion has been known within the vast limits of that leapt State. The rebellion in Utah, which occurred during the reign of the Old Public Functionary, is, too recent to be for gotten. The cause is, no doubt, fresh in the minds of every aged maiden body in the loyal States. The republican institute of our people would not tolerate a monopoly in Heaven's "last best gift to man." General Albert Sidney John .stun was sent to Utah with instructions to con quer the Conjugal spirit of Brigham Young. The Mormon war ended gloriously to our arms. The cause was removed. Harems are now unknown among the latter-day saints, and Brigham, like some lone bird without a mate, " refused to be comforted." In Europe protracted and sanguin ary civil wars have often resulted from differ ences of opinion in regard to the true mode of construing the Bible, and especially concerning the operations of the Holy Ghost. They have failed to abolish the one or deny the other; the result is that few countries in Europe maintain the quiet which usually "prevails"along the Rappahannock. It should not be overlooked that our people were very ignorant, or they would never have been deceived by the treasonable enemies, North and South, of our noble President. It was falsely charged that he and his party friends did not desire to suppress the rebellion without first subverting the rights of the States ; freeing all the slaves and elevating them to political equal ity with the whites. Our people, being of course very ignorant, believed all these false, scanda lous, and malicious statements; and among the resolutions you will adopt at your meeting, there should be one thanking his Excellency, our most approved President, for the effectual means he has adopted to give strength and moral power to the Union men and women of the South, while, at the same time, he has shown how wickedly false and libellous wore the allegetivue of Oonth• [VOL. XXIV.-iO. 9.-WHOLE NO. 1973. ern traitors and Northern copperheads, that he intended to use the army and navy to abolish slavery. The Union men of the South will ever gratefully cherish the name and memory of one who, by ecrupuloue regard of Ms official and other pledges, and his manly adherence to the Chicago platform, has vindicated the truth of all the pledges which, from time to time, wgre made in his behalf; and the traitors and copperheads who thus falsely olisrged our great wud. good. President with designing to subvert the institu tions of the Southern States, must henceforth hide their faces in shame. You should by no means fail to adopt with wild acclamation, mingled with a few "Bully Halle lujahs," a resolution severely denunciatory of those who criticize our military operations, or show impatience at the tardy movements of our armies in South Carolina and Virginia. Such criticism gives the rebels " aid anti comfort," and though it may not he felony without benefit of clergy, it is, nevertheless, what Mr. Polk stigmatized as "moral treason," a crime which our noble President and other Whigs were com pelled to " dry up" during the war with Mexico. Our present military discoed ht but "harmony When understood." We are abundantly able to beat the rebels whenever we try. At present we have them completely surrounded—crowded into a small circumference of not more than . six thousand miles, Our armies are guarding the outposts of this contracted line, and everywhere daring the pusillanimous butternuts to "pierce the centre," and the ragged wretches " take the dare." We have forces at Galveston, New Orleans, Pensacola, Hilton Head, Newborn, euf• folk, (all is quiet on the iilackwater,) Port Monroe, on the Rappahannock, at Baltimore, along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road, in Western Virginia, in Kentucky; Tennes see, Missouri, Port Smith, a,.ei at Viekeburg, in the heart of rebeldera. Ho' long can the rebel lion exist wnen thus circumscribed r In addition to all this, Adjutant General Thomas, a native of " My Maryland," and who, last year was charged by the malignant tongue of slander with being a secessionist and a traitor—following where such noble men ha Butler, Brady, Dickinson, and other old friends of Breokinridgo dare to lead— is now in the Southwest organizing the loyal blacks, who it is understood, are impatient to be led against the barbarous hordes of LA and Beauregard. Northern philosophers, women, and divines, who regard the African as the best nor mal representative of the human race, and those who have seen the sturdy mastiff - quail before the perfume of the skunk, do not believe the delicate nerves of the rebels will be able to withstand a bayonet charge from these American soldiers of African descent, if made when the state of the thermometer indicates cutaneous activity and corresponding perspiration. Time, however, will soon settle thii disputed question. You should further denounce all who complain of the Army of the Potomac. It has been in no sense a failure. It has achieved more than any army in ancient or modern times has accom plished, under similar or equal difficulties. Its bravery is unquestioned, and injustice is done to its Generals. True, McClellan, under the in fluence of Northern copperhead; aided by such Republican fogies as Thurlow Weed, and backed by the stupid graduates of West Point, was fast becoming a favorite with the army and the peo ple; and it was gravely hinted by some of his bolder adherents that he might be used by the copperhead fraternity to supplant our unrivalled President in 1864. Besides, Gen. McClellan had commanded the army of the Potomac long enough. "Rotation in office". is a sound politi can axiom. He was, therefore, retired, although still a favorite with the brave men he so long commanded. Gen. Burnside's career has been an eminently brilliant one ; and the same may be said of Gen. Hooker, who, I presume, will soon retire upon the laurels he basso nobly Woo. But in all this there is strategy: 'tie the result of that superior genius and wisdom of our President, who, as " Commander-in-Chief," moves inferiors upon the military chess-board with a skill which excites the admiration of all who are truly loyal to the Administration. No harm can result from all this. We have an abundance of leaders ready and willing at a mo. ment's notice to lead the Army of the Potomac to the rebel capital. We have in reserve Butler, P.helps. Bueteed, and Lane, to say nothing of Cot. D'lltassy, who, like illahotednet's coffin, is still suspended between the heavens and the earth. I look in vain among the names attached to your letter for one which recalls a familiar face. I do not now remember that I ever had the honor of a personal acquaintance with any one of you, although in former times I knew many of the leading citizens of Memphis, among whom are not a few who are still ardently in favor of e restoration of the Constitution, I regret to find none of them associated with you in the propo sed demonstration. But I will indulge no corn . plaints. Wherever our armies have secured a permament lodgment in the South—as at Hilton Head, New Orleans, Nashville, and Memphis— the Northern friends of our most excellent President have supplied us abundantly with most disinterested men and women, whose loyal tongues are heard in melodious tones wherever we hold, occupy, and possess" a cotton or con traband settlement in the Confederate wilder ness. Look at Hilton Head, where the tender maiden and tougher matron of the North mingle upon sisterly terms with the Palmetto-African ladies of South Carolina, and bountiful issues of tracts and' catechisms will, no doubt, soon be followed by an improved issue of contrabands, not so white as the pure Anglo, not so black as the normal African. In a few years they will " Walk in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that's beat and dark and bright Meet in their aspeot and their eyes." In North Carolina, Charles Henry Foster, Esq., originally from Maine, and a warm politi cal friend of Breckinridge, has organized a Free Labor Association, and Gov. Stanley has gone back to California in •disgust. In Nashville we have a regularly organized Abolition Society ; its organ is the same as that of the State and Federal Government, and the editor, though im ported from abroad, is doing more to sustain the glorious Administration of President Lincoln than any native-born citizen of the State Can do or is willing to do. This Abolition society, and this Abolition newspaper, although conducted within the fortifications of the city, are doing, no doubt, very much to in nee the people of Middle Tennessee to cease all further oppusilion to the wise, gentle. and constitutional rule of our distinguished Chief Magistrate. In Memphis, the harvest is a tempting one. With cotton at a dollar per pound, and likely contrabands f , lying about loose," our enterpris• ing Northern friends, who love the Union and wish it preserved under the guarantees of the Constitution, may make• " a good thing of it." Already A hear of several who have farms in Kansas, lowa, Illinois, Indiana and other " loyal" States, which are now well tilled by ne groes who once belonged to the Union men of the South. 'Facts like these will tend greatly to the restoration of peace and harmony, and materi ally aid in removing the prejudice which. the people of the insurrectionary States have enter tained against their Northern kindred. They now knout that the war is not to be so conducted as to deprive them unnecessarily of any portion of their property ; and they now have positive proof that southern secessionists and northern copperheads, who charged that the war was to be finally waged against the South as a section instead of the rebels and their allies, were guilty of falsehood. Furthermore, there is a large party at the North who have persistently refused to regard the African as the best representative of the human race. This influx of negroes will do much to change their opinions, and by the same means, southern manners and customs will become gradually introduced north of the Ohio and Potomac, rendering our people much more homogenione than in former times. Thus we will again become a united and loving people. The lion and the lamb, the contractor and the Getlirataild, will lie dean together, and then the Millenium will have come. Excuse the haste with which I write, and accept assurances of my highrst regard. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, ETHERIDON. Messrs. J. M. Tomeny, G. D. Johnson, and others, Memphis, Tennessee. GOVERNOR SEYMOUR'S LETTER ON YALLANDIGHAM'S ARREST. STATE OF NEW YORK, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, . flossy, May 16, 1863. S I cannot attend the meeting at the Capitol this evening, but I wish to state my opinion in regard to the arrest of Vallandigham. It is an act whioh has brought dishonor upon our country. It is full of danger to our persons and our homes. It bears upon its front a conscious violation of law and justice. Acting upon the evidence of de tailed informers, shrinking from the light of day, in the darkness of night armed men violated the home of an American citizen, and furtively bore him away to a military trial, conducted without those safeguards known in the proceedings of our judicial tribunals. The transaction involved a series of offences against our most sacred rights. It interfered with the freedom of speech ; it violated our rights to be secure in our homes against unreasonable imarehes aid seizures it pronounced sentence without a trial, save one which was a mockery, which insulted as well as wronged. The perpetrators now seek to impose punishment, not for an offence against law, but for the disregard of an invalid order put forth in the utter disregard of ins principles of civil If this proceeding is approved by the Government and sanctioned by the people, it is not merely a step toward revolution, it is revo lution; it will not on:y lead to:military despotisms it establishes military despotism. In this aspect it must be accepted, or in this aspect it must be rejected. If it is upheld our liberties are over thrown. The safety of Cur persons and security of our property will hereafter depend upon the arbitrary will of such military rulers as may be placed over us, while our constitutional guaran tees will be broken down. Even now the Gov ernors and Courts of some of the great Western States have sunk into insignificance before the despotic powers claimed and exercised by mili tary men, who have been sent into their borders. It is a fearful thing to increase the danger whioh now overhangs us by treating the law, the judi ciary and the authorities. of the States with contempt. The people of this country now wait with the deepest anxiety the decisions of the Administra tion upon these acts. Having given it a generous support in the conduct of the war, we now pause to see what. kind of government it is fur which we are asked to pour out our blood and our treasures. The action of the Administration will determine in the minds of more than one— half of the people of the loyal SWOP whether this war is waged to put down rebellion at the South, or to destroy free institutions at the North. We look for its decision with the most solemn solicitude. HORATIO SEYMOUR. TO Peter Cogger, Solomon P. iliggine, Eroettos Corning, Jr., Committee. TAR PENNSYLVANIA Reszave CORPS.—Yester day evening, about dusk, the Pennsylvania Re serve Corps—or at least what is left of the divi sion—passed up the avenue. The scene presented ae the gallant men marched along to the sounds of martial music, was both pleasant and sorrow— ful. Pleasant, because we knew that they were again marching forward with cheerful hearts and in the best of spirits to once more confront the enemies of their country; and sorrowful because these barely two thousand men were all that were left of what at one time was a corps numbering fifteen thousand men, alike the pride and boast of not only their own State but of the nation. Originally organized as a purely State military body, after the first battle of Bull Run they were called to the defence of the capital, a call which was responded to with the greatest alacrity, as any who were here in those dark days will bear witness to. Until within a few months they have been in active service, and they have made their marks, and gained imperishable renown on al— most every battle field from Drainesville to Fred ericksburg. The active service they had undergone and the numerous shocks of battle which they, with our other brave boys, heroically met, reduced their numbers so low, that on the representation of their Governor and many generals who had wit nessed their deeds, they were removed by the War Department to this city for the purpose of allowing them some rest and to recruit. Since they have been etatiened here they have con ducted themselves as brave soldiers do, and won merited encomiums from our citizens. On their passage up the avenue, loud cheers for Grant, Hooker, McClellan, Rosecrans, and other generals were heard aontinually along the line, and in several instances were re-echoed back by many on the sidewalk awl in the win dows of the different hotels. They left the citylast evening, and although it will not he politic to name the place of their destination, yet we are sure their friends are confident they will be equal to any task the Gov ernment assigns them. The Reserves are under command of Brigadier (funeral Crawford, a gal lant officer, who has often faced the foes of his country, and who was among the large number of officers who were wounded at Antietam.— Washington City Chronicle, 2d inst. LONG turanwasiotts.—There is a well-known anecdote of a silent man, who, riding over a liridge, turned about and asked his servant if he liked eggs, to which the eerrant answered, " Yes ;" whereupon nothing more passed till next year, when, riding over the saute bridge, he turned about to his servant once more, and said, "How ?" to which the instant answer was, "Poached, sir." Even this sinks, as an example of long intermission of discourse, beside an an ecdoteir a minister of Campsie, near Glasgow. It is stated that tile worthy pastor, whose name was Archibald Denniston, was put out of his charge in 1655, and not replaced till after the Kestoration. He had, before leaving his charge, begun a discourse, and finished the first head. At his return in 1661, he took up the second, calmly introducing it with the remark that "the times were altered, but the doctrines of the gos pel were always the same." In the newspapers of July, 1862, there ap peared a paragraph which throws even the min ister of Campsie's interrupted sermon into the shade. It was as follows : "At the moment of the destruction of Pompeii by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, A. D. 79, a theatrical represen tation was being given in the Amphitheatre. A speculator, named Langini, taking advantage of that historical reminiscence, has just constructed a theatre on the ruins of Pompeii ; and the open ing of which new theatre he announces in the following terms: "After a lapse of 1800 years, the theatre of the city will be re-opened with La Figlia del Reggimento. I solicit from the nobility and gentry a continuance of the favor constantly bestowed on my predecessor, Marcus Quintus Martins ; and beg to assure them that I shall make every effort to equal the rare qualities he displayed during his management." Bar THII IRON RIIIINAOR at Port Kennedy, Montgomery county, which has been lying idle for a number of years, has been taken by a par ty of gentlemen, principally from Sokuylki/1 county, end Rill be pal is operation
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